It seems that last season's playoffs dealt a huge blow to Yingodala. In the off-season, he has been polishing his defensive skills and enhancing his strength and confrontation.
Compared with last season, Yingodala's defense is stronger this season.
In this game, Lian Dao also felt the progress of Yin Guodala. On the offensive end, facing Yin Guodala's entanglement, Lian Dao felt the pressure.
However, Lian Dao's desire to score in this game was not high, while Stoudemire was in very good shape.
In particular, Odom seemed to be in a state of dissociation on the court, and his offensive enthusiasm was not high, let alone defense. Not surprisingly, Stoudemire directly beat Odom.
In this game, the third quarter was not even finished, and the game almost entered garbage time.
Stoudemire had the highest score in this game, with 36 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists.
Lian Dao also scored 21 points in the third quarter.
After the game, press conference.
Although the 76ers lost the game, the media praised Yingodala's defensive strength.
This is the first time since the start of this season that Lian Dao has scored less than 25 points. They believe that Yingodala's role is indispensable.
After the game, Lian Dao expressed even more.
"Andre is an extremely good player, especially his defensive ability is very good!"
On this point, Lian Dao is not just talking nonsense. Since the start of the game, in single defense, no one except Yingodala has been able to put pressure on him at the third position.
Even Shawn Marion and Corey Maggette, who is known as the devil's muscle, did not. On the contrary, Lian Dao felt that he was more relaxed when facing Marion than last season.
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In the 76ers' post-game press conference, Ying Guodala was not happy when faced with the praise from Lian Dao, his opponent. He felt more like a sarcasm.
In fact, this game was a huge blow to Yingodala. Lian Dao only felt the pressure when facing Yingodala's defense, while Yingodala was horrified to feel that Lian Dao's strength had improved again.
Before the game, Yingodala was full of confidence.
In the first nine games, although the 76ers' record was not very good, Yingodala's defensive strength has received unanimous praise.
Among them, there were some strong teams against them, such as the Heat. Although the 76ers lost the game, James was limited by Ying Guodala to only score 14 points, and his shooting percentage was less than 30%.
Although Lian Dao only scored 21 points in this game, his shooting percentage was as high as 56.7%.
Many times it's not that he can't score, it's just that he doesn't want to score.
This feeling was like fighting a BOSS that was constantly evolving. No matter how much progress I made, I would be ruthlessly crushed by the BOSS. This feeling of powerlessness hit Yingodala a bit.
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After defeating the 76ers, the Knicks then faced back-to-back games against the Memphis Grizzlies on the road.
Stoudemire played well in the last game, and Lian Dao also started to exert his strength in this back-to-back game.
With a tight back-to-back schedule, the Knicks are not the only ones to encounter injuries. No, the Grizzlies are also plagued by injuries.
Their small forward Rudy Gayin just returned from injury at the beginning of the season, and Zach Randolph, one of the Black and White Bears, was injured in the fourth game against the Bulls and will miss at least two games.
game of the month.
Zach Randolph's injury also directly caused the Black Bear's peak period to end prematurely. This is also the case in history. After recovering from injury, Zach Randolph will never be able to play the same state as last season.
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Since it was back-to-back games on the road, the other Knicks players were not in very good shape.
Therefore, in this back-to-back game, the Knicks played extremely hard. Although the Grizzlies' offense was not very good, their defense was very strong. Even without Zach Randolph, they still played extremely tenaciously.
Until the last 17 seconds of the game, the score between the two teams was.
The score on the field made everyone anxious.
This is the first time this season that the Knicks have not scored more than 100 points in the game. Not only that, they are still one point behind the Grizzlies.
Fortunately, the ball was in the hands of the Knicks. Lian Dao caught the ball from the outside amid layers of double-teams. Against the double-teams of Rudy Gayin and O.J. Mayo, he scored a three-pointer at the buzzer to complete the buzzer-beating victory.
This is also the first time the Knicks have taken the lead in this game.
Despite being double-teamed by the Grizzlies, Lian Dao still scored an assist and finally beat his opponent, but Stoudemire's performance was truly a miracle.
He made 6 of 18 shots and only scored 15 points and 7 rebounds. When he hit the basket, Stoudemire was blocked by Gasol's defense.
One day later, the Knicks rushed to Oklahoma again non-stop to face the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The biggest change for the Thunder this season is James Harden.
If Harden was still lagging behind in the first two seasons, this season Harden has exploded.
In the first twelve games, James Harden averaged 20.8 points, 3.5 assists and 4.3 rebounds per game, coupled with the stable performance of eldest brother Durant and second brother Westbrook.
The Thunder's three youngsters are making steady progress in the direction of the Thunder's Big Three.
They opened 12 games this season and had a record of 10 wins and 2 losses, ranking first in the Western Conference.
That's right, neither the Mavericks nor the Clippers are No. 1 in the Western Conference.
Since the start of the game, both teams have faced a problem, that is, the team lineup is running into trouble, so their records are not as good as the Thunder, which has formed a tacit understanding.
Especially since the Thunder recently won six games in a row, both the Dallas Mavericks and the San Antonio Spurs fell at the feet of the Thunder.
This six-game winning streak has also excited Oklahoma fans, who seem to see the team's hope of reaching the top.
Thunder fans are indeed worthy of excitement. They were able to win six consecutive games in the shortened season, and they were still in the Western Conference, known as Shura Arena. Especially this season, even the Mavericks, who were known as the super cows, fell to the Thunder's crazy offense.
Oklahoma fans seem to have seen the historic moment in the Finals when the Thunder completed the championship.
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I can't say that the Knicks' offense can surpass the Thunder, but their defense is definitely very strong.
Whether it's the lineup or the substitute lineup, except for Stoudemire, everyone has good defensive strength. Even Cousins' defense is constantly improving this season.
In the first 11 games of the Knicks, except for the first opener, the Christmas Day game against the Mavericks, the Knicks went on the offensive and did not put much energy into the defensive end, allowing the Mavericks to score 121 points.
Except for the Mavericks, no team has scored more than 100 points so far under the Knicks' defense.
Especially in this game, the Knicks restricted the performance of the Thunder's three young players from point to point.
However, it is not easy for Lian Dao to restrict Durant. Especially this season, Lian Dao obviously feels that Durant's shooting is more stable.
In this game, Durant took 21 shots, hit 10 times, with a shooting percentage of 47.6%, and scored 27 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist.
Westbrook performed reasonably well under the Knicks' defense, making 6 of 17 shots and scoring 18 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists.
But they still lost the game in the end, and the reason was still because of James Harden.
Harden was tightly defended by Tony Allen. He made 2 of 10 shots from the field and only scored 6 points.
In this game, the Thunder's main lineup managed to gain an advantage several times, but when the substitute lineup came on, the Knicks' substitute lineup erased the advantage and went ahead by the score.
Jeremy Lin broke out again in this game, scoring 16 points and 4 assists as a substitute. There is currently a trend of replacing Tony Douglas as the first substitute at the No. 1 position.
Hassan also had a brilliant performance. Westbrook attacked the basket twice, but was directly blocked by Hassan.
At the same time, as a rebounder, although he only played less than 10 minutes, he got 6 rebounds and his efficiency was very high.
But it is still impossible for him to replace Hayes and become the first substitute at the fifth position.
The main reason is that Hassan's performance is very unstable, and some of his inside skills are very rough and need to be continuously polished.
It is precisely because of the outstanding performance of the Knicks' substitutes that it directly increased the pressure on the Thunder's main lineup. Durant only rested for less than 5 minutes in the entire game.
In the fourth quarter, the Thunder's weakness in follow-up reappeared, and the Knicks went ahead with a wave of offense. In the last 30 seconds, Danny Green's three-pointer helped the Knicks secure the victory.
In the end, the Knicks defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder, ending the Thunder's winning streak.
The Knicks scored evenly in this game, with Lian Dao scoring 30 points, Stoudemire 28 points, and Danny Green 12 points...